Geary 0.8 Released with Redesign & Signature Support

September 21, 2014

Yorba Team has recently announced its Geary Mail Client 0.8 with lots of new features and improvements. Here’s how to upgrade it in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

According to the release note, Geary 0.8 now looks a lot sharper and more modern than before. The compose new message and reply window are now inline the main window. You can still pop the composer out into a separate window through the Detach button.

Compose new message and Reply window are now inline the main window

Another new feature is that signature support has been made into Geary. It will automatically insert a signature of your design into an email, whether new or replying to another.

Geary with signature support

Also the new release brings great improvement on database speed and IMAP connection stability, and more:

Saving drafts to server can be disabled

Improved interface, now using GtkHeaderBar and modern widgets

Database speed optimizations to reduce lags and improve read times

Improved connection handling and reestablishment

Show attachments lacking a Content-Disposition

Important bug fixes

Updated translations

Install Geary 0.8 in Ubuntu 14.04 or Linux Mint 17:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:

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